by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 25, 2020 | Scam of the day
Today is Thanksgiving and many people have already turned their attention to the upcoming holiday shopping season that starts in earnest tomorrow. For many of us, particularly during the Coronavirus pandemic, shopping online is both more convenient and often more...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 24, 2020 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is about a phishing email presently circulating that attempts to lure you into clicking on a link in order to continue using your AOL account. If you click on the link one of two things can occur and both are bad. Either you will end up...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 24, 2020 | Scam of the day
In October of 2017 the Federal Trade Commission, working with the Attorneys General of eleven states, launched what it cleverly calls, Operation Game of Loans to jointly target these various student loan scams. Some scammers promise dramatic reductions of debt of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
People in Ohio have reported receiving an offical looking email that appears to come from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in which people are lured into clicking on links purportedly for information about applying for Pandmic Unemployment Assistance...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 21, 2020 | Scam of the day
Each year the password manager company NordPass does a study of the worst passwords commonly used. These easily discerned passwords make their users particularly vulnerable to identity theft. These passwords become available to identity thieves through data breaches...
